Sagarika Ghose | |
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Sagarika Ghose
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Born |
New Delhi, India |
8 November 1964
Education | St. Stephen's College, Delhi Magdalen College, Oxford St Antony's College, Oxford |
Occupation | Journalist, news anchor |
Years active | 1991–present |
Notable credit(s) | Face The Nation |
Spouse(s) | Rajdeep Sardesai (m. 1994) |
Website | Sagarika Ghose's Blog |
Sagarika Ghose (born 8 November 1964) is an Indian journalist, news anchor and author. She has been a journalist since 1991 and has worked at The Times Of India, Outlook and The Indian Express. She was the deputy editor and a prime time anchor on the news network CNN-IBN. Ghose has won several awards in journalism and is the author of two novels. She resigned as deputy editor of CNN-IBN in July 2014 after the network was taken over by Reliance Industries. She is now consulting editor at The Times of India.
Ghose received her bachelor's degree in History from St. Stephen's College, Delhi. A recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship in 1987, she has a Bachelor's in Modern History from Magdalen College and an M.Phil. from St Antony's College, Oxford. Since 1991, she has worked at The Times Of India, Outlook magazine and The Indian Express and was deputy editor and prime time anchor on the news network CNN-IBN.
She is the daughter of Bhaskar Ghose, formerly of the Indian Administrative Service 1960 batch, erstwhile Director General of Doordarshan, the Indian public television network. Her two aunts include Arundhati Ghose, former ambassador and diplomat and Ruma Pal, former justice of the Supreme Court of India. She is married to journalist and news anchor Rajdeep Sardesai. Rajdeep and Sagarika have two children, son Ishan, and daughter Tarini.